Boast Quotes
323 Boast quotes by 249 unique authors
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Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.
— William Shakespeare
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It's not logical that we boast the most advanced and powerful internationally integrated economy in the world, then claim organizational incompetence and poverty when it…
— Jesse Jackson, Jr.
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The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and…
— Dalai Lama
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy…
— John Dryden
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As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work,…
— Gene Stratton-Porter
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I have no prouder boast to say I am Irish and have been privileged to fight for the Irish people and for Ireland. If I…
— Unknown Author
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When one becomes conscious of his great humility, he has already lost it. When one begins boasting of his humility, it has already become pride-the…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils - who are the worst enemies of Christ and us all - to befriend them…
— Martin Luther
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The mark of an educated man is not in his boast that he has built his mountain of facts and has stood on top of…
— Unknown Author
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You don't impress the officials at NASA with a paper airplane. You don't boast about your crayon sketches in the presence of Picasso. You don't…
— Max Lucado
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You must be yielded to the Word of God. The Word will work out love in our hearts, and when practical love is in our…
— Smith Wigglesworth
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We forget the gospel when we neglect our adoption and think that we're still just a hired servant. The Father doesn't let us come to…
— Elyse Fitzpatrick
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People will not be bored. They may listen politely at a dinner table to boasts and personalities, life history, etc. But in print they choose…
— Claude C. Hopkins
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We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.
— Samuel Adams
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
— Owen D. Young
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"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat,"…
— Winston Churchill
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Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of…
— Blaise Pascal
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Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.
— Sophocles
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Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.
— Patrick Henry
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I choose goodness... I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will…
— Max Lucado
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I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
— Seneca the Younger
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I hear no one boast, that he hath a knowledge of the Scriptures, but that he owneth a Bible written in golden characters. And tell…
— Saint John Chrysostom
Who Wrote These Boast Quotes
249 authors contributed a total of 323 Boast Quotes, led by these top contributors: